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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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204 XVIIl. SIR THOMAS ELYOT.as wel as I haue sene a semblable experience <strong>of</strong> wilde hobies ,'whiche in some countrayes that be charripaine / wyll sore 60and lie a-l<strong>of</strong>te / houeringe ouer larkes and quailes / & kepe<strong>the</strong>m downe on <strong>the</strong> grou^zde /- whiles <strong>the</strong>y / whiche awayteon <strong>the</strong> praye do take <strong>the</strong>m. But in what wise / or whereso-euer<strong>the</strong> beginninge <strong>of</strong> banking was / suerly it is a rightdelectable solace / thoughe <strong>the</strong>r-<strong>of</strong> co/zzmeth nat so moche r.5vtiHtie (concerning exercise) as <strong>the</strong>re do<strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong> huntinge.But I wolde our faukons mought be satisfied with <strong>the</strong> diuision<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir pray / as <strong>the</strong> fauko«s_<strong>of</strong> Tracia were / that <strong>the</strong>yneded nat <strong>to</strong> deuour and consume <strong>the</strong> hennes <strong>of</strong> this realme /in suche nombre / that vnneth it be shortly considred/& that 70fauko//s be brought <strong>to</strong> a more homely diete / itis right likelythat within a shorte space <strong>of</strong> yeres / our familiar pultrie shallbe as scarce / as be nowe partriche and fesaunt. I speakenat this in dispraise <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> faukons : but <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m whichekepeth <strong>the</strong>m like coknayes. 75

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